Jamie Luner Quotes

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

It took me a long time to grow up.

I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you're in your 40s and you're kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore.

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

You hear women talk about it all the time, like when you turn thirty, 'That's when it all came together for me, girl.' Honestly, that's what I feel.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.

With age and experience, I started to know myself better.

With time, you do get mature.

The older you get the more you realize that life is more than just basketball. Your vision of the world gets much wider, and you're not the centre of it no more. You understand that you're a moving part and that you have other responsibilities.

Just because I was 30 doesn't mean I was grown. God, I was such an idiot. I was an absolute idiot at 30. And I grew up.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

I'm 21 years old and I think that I've got a lot of perspective in life.

It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.